Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: An overview of cardiovascular risk factor burden in sub-Saharan African countries: a socio-cultural perspective | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Open Access An overview of cardiovascular risk factor burden in sub-Saharan African countries a socio-cultural perspective Rhonda BeLue1 Titilayo A Okoror2 Juliet Iwelunmor3 Kelly D Taylor4 Arnold N Degboe1 Charles Agyemang 5 and Gbenga Ogedegbe6 Address Department of Health Policy and Administration 604 Ford Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA 2Department of Health and Kinesiology Purdue University Lambert Fieldhouse West Lafeyette Indiana USA 3Department of Biobehavioral Health The Pennsylvania State University 315 Health and Human Development East University Park PA USA 4Department of Medicine Center for AIDS Prevention Studies University of California San Francisco 50 Beale St San Francisco California USA Department of Social Medicine Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam the Netherlands and 6Department of Medicine New York University New York USA Email Rhonda BeLue - rzb10@ Titilayo A Okoror - tokoror@ Juliet Iwelunmor - jiall 1 @ Kelly D Taylor - Arnold N Degboe - and140@ Charles Agyemang - Gbenga Ogedegbe - Corresponding author Published 22 September 2009 Received II May 2009 J. r IA Accepted 22 September 2009 Globalization and Health 2009 5 10 doi 1744-8603-5-10 This article is available from http content 5 1 10 2009 BeLue et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Sub-Saharan African SSA countries are currently experiencing one of the most rapid epidemiological transitions characterized by increasing urbanization and changing lifestyle factors.
